…any item of a specified type (used to show that no particular individual is in question)…
…the popular name of the Royal Victoria Theatre in London. Under the management of Lilian Baylis from 1912 it gained an enduring reputation for its Shakespearean productions…
…the original or long-standing members of a group, regarded as unwilling to accept change or new ideas…
…the Irish Gaelic language up to circa 1000, from which modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic are derived…
…the North Germanic language of medieval Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden up to the 14th century, from which the modern Scandinavian languages are derived…
…a double-flowered rose of a variety or hybrid evolved before the development of the hybrid tea rose…
…a hill in southern England 3 km (2 miles) north of Salisbury, the site of an ancient Iron Age settlement and hill fort, and later of a Norman castle and town. The settlement fell into decline after the new cathedral and town of Salisbury were established in 1220, and the site was deserted…
…a member of the Saxon peoples who remained in Germany, as opposed to an Anglo-Saxon…
…the method of calculating dates using the Julian calendar…
…old-fashioned or reminiscent of the past, typically in a nostalgic or sentimental way…
…any of a number of deep-bodied edible marine fishes, in particular:…
…Europe, Asia, and Africa, regarded collectively as the part of the world known before the discovery of the Americas…
…belonging to or associated with former times, especially when considered quaint and attractive…
…the Central Criminal Court in London, formerly standing in an ancient bailey of the London city wall. The present court was built in 1903-6 on the site of Newgate Prison…
